Eric Haas column: Is tape backup dead?

7:39 AM,
Oct. 26, 2012

Eric Haas

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For any business, small or large, having good backups is important. For some it's restoring a single document that was accidentally deleted, and others are just running out of space and need to archive past files. But for all, backups are necessary to ensure the business can recover from a major event such as a hardware failure or natural disaster. Not only is tape still alive, it's a key backup and archiving medium for data storage.

Benefits of tape backups:

? Reliability and durability. Tapes are built for backups and are only used during a backup or recovery. This provides a reliable data ...